Remote Senior Security Architect – Palo Alto & Zscaler

NTT Data Americas, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA Services is seeking a Senior Network Security Architect to design and optimize enterprise security with a focus on Palo Alto NGFW, Panorama, SCM, and Zscaler ZIA/ZPA. This role oversees secure remote access, cloud integration, and Zero Trust deployments.

You will work with Security Operations, Cloud, and Infrastructure teams to maintain compliance with NIST, CIS, ISO 27001 and other standards while mentoring engineers and driving project success.

Qualifications

• Over 12 years in Network Security or Security Engineering.
• 10+ years hands-on Palo Alto firewall experience.
• 10+ years managing Panorama environments.
• 4+ years with Zscaler ZIA/ZPA solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and support NGFWs across enterprise environments.
• Manage firewall policies, NAT, VPNs, routing, and App-ID/User-ID.
• Lead upgrades, migrations, and high availability deployments.
• Perform rule reviews, policy optimization, and audits.
• Lead security incident root-cause analysis and response.
• Oversee Panorama, SCM, and ZIA/ZPA policy governance.

Skills

Palo Alto NGFW Administration

Panorama Management

Strata Cloud Manager

Zscaler ZIA/ZPA

Zero Trust Architecture

Cloud Security

Python

Terraform

PowerShell

SSL Decryption

Tools

Palo Alto

Zscaler

SCM

Job description

NTT DATA Services is seeking a Senior Network Security Architect to design and optimize enterprise security with a focus on Palo Alto NGFW, Panorama, SCM, and Zscaler ZIA/ZPA. This role oversees secure remote access, cloud integration, and Zero Trust deployments.

You will work with Security Operations, Cloud, and Infrastructure teams to maintain compliance with NIST, CIS, ISO 27001 and other standards while mentoring engineers and driving project success.